Your head's not the place to store Problems by Josh Pyke
$27.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
Some problems seem heavy, they can weigh you down. Your mind feels too cluttered, the world seems too loud! Sometimes your brain feels full up and crowdy. Your mood swings from sunny to suddenly cloudy. We’re full to the brim with unknowable things, but your head’s not the place to store problems in. A ...Show more
World by Martine Murray; Anna Read (Illustrator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
A children's picture book with ecological themes in which a man is persuaded not to cut a tree down, by the tree's quiet revelation of the beauty of the world housed by the tree.
The Black Cockatoo with One Feather Blue by Jodie McLeod; Eloise Short (Illustrator); Melissa Mylchreest (Designed by)
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
What happens when the one thing that makes you special is stolen? Join the Black Cockatoo in this fun, read-aloud adventure through the Australian bush as she searches for her missing feather... and discovers what's truly important. "Do you know who took my one feather blue?" Featuring iconic Australi ...Show more
Plague by Jackie French
$27.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone, Drought, Pandemic and Earthquake ... Grass and wheat-lands spread to the horizon, and so did we, with too few ibis to control us. We could rage across the land. We ate the grass, the leaves, the wheat ...
Raised by Moths by Charlie Archbold, Michelle Conn
$30.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
Age range 4+ Willow jumps on the Ferris Wheel and is intrigued to see a boy surrounded by moths. As they travel high above the fairground he tells her the reason why the moths love him so much: he was raised by moths. Wonderfully fantastical and thought-provoking with stunning illustrations, Raised b ...Show more
Satin by Sophie Masson
$30.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
Every morning early, when no-one’s about, Satin slips out of the forest and walks along the sleepy sunrise streets, looking for blue...He’s collected all kinds of blues, from all kinds of places. He’s making something beautiful, with all those blues. But something’s missing, and he doesn’t know what it ...Show more
That Bird Has Arms by Kate Temple, Jol Temple
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year | Reading Level: near fine
Roy is an ordinary bird in every way. He is not the biggest, or the smallest. His squawk is not the loudest or the quietest. He even follows the same football team as everyone else. He was very normal except for one thing – he has ARMS. Absolutely nobody knows – and Roy would like to keep it that way... ...Show more
The Garden at the End of the World by Briony Stewart, Cassy Polimeni
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
Isla and her mother go on an enchanting journey to the Global Seed Vault in Norway to discover a garden waiting at the end of the world. At the end of the world is an island covered in ice. On the island is a mountain. Inside the mountain is a vault. And inside the vault are millions of seeds. When Is ...Show more
Good Morning, My Deer! by Melanie Amon
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
Next, I brushed my hare and put on my new pear of shoes. Mum painted her nails before we set out for the day. Join Banjo and his mum on what starts as a straightforward day out, only to have it upended by homophones (two words with the same pronunciation but with different meanings), turning the narrati ...Show more
Paper-flower Girl by Margrete Lamond
$27.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
The Paper-flower Girl creates elaborate flowers out of paper, but she has few customers. When the Giant from the Hill brings her to work for him, they soon discover they want very different things. Before long, the Paper-flower Girl is forced to create things she no longer recognises as flowers. When th ...Show more
If I Was a Horse by Sophie Blackall
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
In her funniest book yet, two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall captures the astonishing spectacle of a child imagining life as a horse. And with a book jacket adorned with glitter, this romp really sparkles! If I was a horse, I would gallop all day. I could go anywhere I want . . . If you were a ...Show more
Desert Jungle by Jeannie Baker
$28.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
In spectacular and astonishing collage detail, Jeannie Baker captures the deep beauty, mystery, and hidden vitality of the desert landscape – and why it needs our protection. Chico’s grandpa has taken him on holiday where he grew up as a child, out in the desert. Chico has no interest in exploring the l ...Show more